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Tablets, before and after the iPad

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

Tags: iPad, Tablets
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App Savvy: Turning Ideas into iPad and iPhone Apps Customers Really Want

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

If you are looking for a good book on how to create successful iPhone applications, whether you are a developer or not, today is your lucky day. Starting today you can find on Amazon a great book on this topic: App Savvy, by Ken Yarmosh.

The book follows the entire process of creating an iPhone application: from idea inception to realization and beyond (marketing strategies and after-launch analysis}. The whole book is also enriched by real case histories and interviews with experts of each phase of the development. I actually had the honor of being one of the people interviewed by Ken. I answered questions about hiring the right developer for your project and my experience with Get Apps Done.

Here some of the topics you’ll find in the book:

Learn about the App Store and how Apple’s mobile devices function
Follow guidelines for vetting and researching app ideas
Validate your ideas with customers — and create an app they’ll be passionate about
Assemble your development team, understand costs, and establish a workable process
Build your marketing plan while you develop your application
Test your working app extensively before submitting it to the App Store
Assess your app’s performance and keep potential buyers engaged and enthusiastic

Learn more at http://getappsavvy.com

Tags: Book, iOS, iPad
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10 Marketing tips for your iPhone apps

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Last night I gave a presentation at Refresh Mobile, a combination of the South Florida iPhone meetup and the South Florida Android Developers meetup, about how to market your iOS, but not only, applications.

These are the slides from the presentation:

Update:
Here’s the video of the presentation courtesy of Damian Montero

Tags: Android, iOS, iPad, Meetup, Presentation, Refresh Mobile
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How to use Pikchur on Twitterrific for iPad

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

The Twitter client situation for iPad is still kinda sad. Not a lot of players and not a lot of quality, mostly because not many developers grasped the best way to visualize Twitter on this device.

While waiting for ~~Tweetie~~ Twitter for iPad, I decided to use Twitterrific for iPad, gorgeous design, simple and free. But there is a “but.” It doesn’t come with native support for my favorite picture sharing service: Pikchur. Luckily they offer a way to add your own custom services for media uploads, you just need the end point of the media service URL endpoint and you’ll be good to go.

If you’d like to add Pikchur as well, here is their endpoint:
http://api.pikchur.com/twitterrific

Launch the application and tap on the Compose button in the upper-right corner of the screen. In the window that appears, tap on the camera icon and select “Change Upload Service”. At the bottom of the list that’s displayed, you’ll see “Other…”. Tap that and you see a text field where you can specify the “Media Service URL Endpoint”. Enter “http://api.pikchur.com/twitterrific” and then tap outside the popover window to dismiss it. Done!
Another good thing is that this media end point already supports twitters new echo oAuth, so no need to change any settings when they switch over to oAuth only authentication.

Now I can finally share my pictures and videos on Pikchur, the only problem is that at the moment media are uploaded without a title. It would be nice if Twitterrific passed the parameter “message” so that media services could use it as caption for the picture.

Tags: API, iPad, iPad Applications, Twitter
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